What's the advantage of using one vs the other? Other than the obvious of the extension auto updating. Is one method better than the other in terms of effectiveness? Does the .ini start its own process like Adblock Plus?

RWUK wrote:What's the advantage of using one vs the other? Other than the obvious of the extension auto updating. Is one method better than the other in terms of effectiveness? Does the .ini start its own process like Adblock Plus?

Thanks in advance.

I think either does just as good of a job. No, the adblock.ini does not start another process. But, IMO, the .ini way blocks the ads more completely than the extension(s) do, depending on the extension.There is a way to auto update the .ini IF you are wiling to set up a script that does it when you turn your machine on.Otherwise, there are scripts that can reside on your desktop that once clicked will get the latest fanboy blocker list.

Thanks for the response. I've been trying out Adblock Plus Beta for a couple weeks now and sometimes ads 'slip through'. Apparently the experimental version and Experimental Extension APIs prevents that.

I posted a zip file of a script that will get fanboy's list, and let you add your own in a file on your hard drive that will also be called by the script.It is under my name on page 7 of this posting, and is dated Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:55 pm.viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1950&start=60You WILL need to do some editing for ti to work in your situation, on your machine.

NOTE! I did not write this vbs script! I got it a long time back from these forums and modified it to my OS and file locations. Uploaded files seem to disappear from in here. Why I don't know.

Try this, COPY the original VBS script and name it regional.vbs. Then modify the const source = to the regional list, and const destination = to myfilter.txt.This mean you will need to run both scripts in sequence.

ironuser wrote:Try this, COPY the original VBS script and name it regional.vbs. Then modify the const source = to the regional list, and const destination = to myfilter.txt.This mean you will need to run both scripts in sequence.

1- Run the regional.vbs2- Run the original VBS

It doesn't work, Iron crashes (regional.vbs works fine, it generate a correct myfile.txt).It's the final adblock.ini merged that wronged (I think that regional.txt syntax, firefox compatible only, is not compatible with adblock.ini syntax for chrome).